Hi,
I believe that you send ppp data through the ssh pipe.
There are more efficient means of creating a tunnel now: cipe is not
too bad. I am not sure how the latest ipsec stuff works, but it may
be another more efficient way.
Blair.
At 03:08 +0200 2001/02/14, Tatu Ylonen wrote:
> > Is there a way to use SSH as a VPN tunnel? What I'd like to be able to
>> do is establish a SSH connection to a server on the other side of a
>> firewall (I already have this part working), then create a "route" on my
>> local system that would send certain traffic (based on netmask) over the
>> SSH connection to the remote system.
>
>If I remember correctly, Charlie Scott's book "Virtual Private Networks",
>2nd edition (O'Reilly, 1998) has a section on how to use SSH Secure Shell
>to build a VPN.
>
> Tatu
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